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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 20</span><span class="fp-text">LE RENARD ET LE DRAGON</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XX</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">VULPIS ET DRACO</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un Renard se creusait un terrier il jetait la terre au dehors,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et travaillait avec ardeur à ses galeries souterraines,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">lorsqu'il rencontra une caverne profonde,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">où un dragon gardait des trésors cachés.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Dès que le Renard l'aperçut&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Pardonne, lui dit-il, mon imprudence ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ensuite, comme tu dois voir</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que les trésors ne me conviennent guère,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">réponds à une demande sans te fâcher. Quel fruit retires-tu</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de cette tâche&nbsp;? ta récompense doit être grande,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car tu te prives de sommeil, et passes ta vie dans les ténèbres.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Rien, répondit le Dragon ; Jupiter a seulement</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">remis ce dépôt à ma vigilance. —&nbsp;Tu ne peux donc ni prendre ta part,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ni en donner à personne&nbsp;? —&nbsp;Non, telle est la volonté suprême.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Ne te fâches pas, je te prie, si je te le dis avec franchise&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">celui qui te ressemble est né maudit des dieux.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Vulpis cubile fodiens dum terram eruit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n124/mode/1up">p.61</a>]</span> agitque plures altius cuniculos,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">pervenit ad draconis speluncam ultimam,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">custodiebat qui thesauros abditos.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hunc simul aspexit&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Oro ut inprudentiae</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">des primum veniam ; deinde si <span class="fp-correction" title="pulchrae  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">pulchre</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="pulchre  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">pulchrae</span></span> vides</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quam non conveniens aurum sit vitae meae,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">respondeas clementer&nbsp;: quem fructum capis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">hoc ex labore, quodve tantum est praemium</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut careas somno et aevum in tenebris exigas&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Nullum, inquit ille, verum hoc a summo mihi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Jove adtributum est. —&nbsp;Ergo nec sumis tibi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec ulli donas quicquam&nbsp;? —&nbsp;Sic fatis placet.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Nolo irascaris libere si dixero&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dis est iratis natus qui est similis tibi.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Puisque tu dois aller là où sont tes pères,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">quelle folie de tourmenter ta misérable existence&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">C'est à toi que je m'adresse, avare, toi qui fais la joie de ton héritier,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">toi qui refuses l'encens aux dieux et la nourriture à toi-même&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">les sons harmonieux de la lyre attristent ton cœur,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et la flûte douce et suave te fait sécher.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le prix des vivres t'arrache des gémissements,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et pour augmenter un peu ton patrimoine par ton avarice,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">tu fatigues le ciel de tes sordides parjures ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">enfin tu marchandes même sur ton convoi funèbre,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de peur que Libitine ne gagne quelque chose avec toi.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Abiturus illuc quo priores abierunt,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quid mente caeca miserum torques spiritum&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tibi dico, avare, gaudium heredis tui,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui ture superos, ipsum te fraudas cibo,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui tristis audis musicum <span class="fp-correction" title="cithare  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">citharae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="citharae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">cithare</span></span> sonum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quem tibiarum macerat jocunditas,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">obsoniorum <span class="fp-correction" title="praetia  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">pretia</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="pretia  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">praetia</span></span> <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n125/mode/1up">p.62</a>]</span> cui gemitum exprimunt,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui dum quadrantes aggeras patrimonio</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">caelum fatigas sordido perjurio,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui circumcidis omnem inpensam funeris</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="libet inane  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">Libitina ne</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Libitina ne  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">libet inane</span></span> quid de tuo faciat lucrum.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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